Ten Thousand - Alternate Full Band Version/Remastered 2018

Ten thousand glimmering like coals in our chest
 Ball bearings drawn to the magnetic breath
 Of ten thousand weeping with wings on their tears
 Amidst ten thousand voices for ten thousand years
 For ten thousand graves yawning unlocked and unlatched
 Now ten thousand holes with rocks on their backs
 Ten thousand tombs gaping wide singing the praise
 Of ten thousand bodies unlaced and unlaid
 As the ten thousand highways unfold their doors
 For the ten thousand standing on Nineveh's shores
 Where the blood of a husband silences wars
 For the girl who rises to meet him
 And she sings
 World, I have overcome you
 World, I have overcome you
 World, I have overcome
 By my song and the blood of a son
 Ten thousand rivers
 Run red like my veins
 Where the bones of men hum
 Like a rattling cage
 For sinew to cling to
 And wind to remain
 In ten thousand lungs
 For ten thousand days
 Breathing like a choir
 Of holes in the ground
 Where the cynical have lain
 Where the cynical go down
 Save the gravity of time
 Lets go of her drowned
 Like ten thousand sparrows
 Unlocked and unwound
 As the ten thousand highways unfold their doors
 For the ten thousand standing on Nineveh's shores
 Where the blood of a husband silences wars
 For the girl who rises to meet him
 And she sings
 World, I have overcome you
 World, I have overcome you
 World, I have overcome
 By my song and the blood of a son